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elective brain surgery

Sat, 05/21/2005 - 16:52

Hi, my name is Kathy and my twin sister has had epilepsy for 30 + yrs.  She has been ok'd for left temporal lobe brain surgery in the near future. Is there anyone out there who has had the surgery or is anticipating having the surgery? I would really like to talk about it. Thanks.

Comments

RE: elective brain surgery

Submitted by TomII20 on Mon, 2005-05-23 - 21:45
 My name is TomIIWatkins. I had brain surgey at 4 months of age at the time had only 24 months live. I have a seizure disorder since 8/78. I have had all the type of seizures. Right now I have about 2 to 10 seizures a day and last month had 50 seizures. Ig you want to talk more email at TomII20@yahoo.com

RE: elective brain surgery

Submitted by dfriedman on Mon, 2005-05-23 - 23:09
Hi, I am about to have Left Temporal Lobe surgery in a couple of weeks. Did you sister have her surgery yet?

RE: RE: elective brain surgery

Submitted by kae326 on Tue, 2005-05-24 - 18:07
Hi, I am Kathy's sister Karen, who has become a candidate to have the surgery. Have to go into the hospital for one more test next month (June 16). I feel very comfortable with the neurosurgeon who will be perfoming the procedure. I am not sure when the surgery will take place - but will kindda of anxious to have it done. I have a list of 28 questions to ask the him already. I have been a patient of Dr. Weaver's now for 7years. In 1999 he implanted the vagus nerve stimulator. It has helped by cutting the my seizures in half from 20 a month down to about 7-10 amonth. If you would like to chat on line or send me an e-mail my addy is kae3262@cs.com. I would be interested to see what your doctor has told you about the surgery. I will be have left temporal lobe surgery also. Good luck to you when you have it done.Karen

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